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Continental Drivers of Population‐Level Intraspecific Trait Variability in Salamanders, Birds, and Small MammalsNARA Subscribed
Aim Intraspecific trait variability (ITV) is a key component of biodiversity because it informs how organisms respond to abiotic and biotic conditions. Understanding how the variability among individuals within a population (population‐level ITV) changes along environmental gradients offers insight into how local processes contribute to broad‐scale biodiversity patterns. Here, we examine how climate and species‐richness intera...
The hyperiid amphipod Brachyscelus rapacoides is a warm-water species associated with gelatinous zooplankton. In the Mediterranean it has been reported in association with Rhopilema nomadica in both Israel and Turkey. Here, we document the first record of B. rapacoides in Greek waters, representing the first confirmed record for Europe, based on both morphological examination and DNA barcoding of the mitochondrial COI gene. Sp...
Effectiveness of Ensifer meliloti as beneficial microorganism depends on barley’s genotype and specific environmental factorsNARA Subscribed
Background and aims Inoculation with plant beneficial microorganism (BM) may enhance plants’ resilience, their growth and decrease the susceptibility to pathogens and diseases. Good example of a beneficial microorganism is Ensifer meliloti ( Sinorhizobium meliloti ) Rm2011, a N -acyl homoserine lactones producing bacterium known for its beneficial effects on different plants in greenhouse or in vitro settings. Aim of this stud...
Bridging the Energy Balance Gap in Eddy‐Covariance Measurements: Insights From Standardized Network DataNARA Subscribed
The lack of energy balance closure in Eddy‐Covariance (EC) measurements is a well‐known, still unresolved challenge in micrometeorology, with energy balance closure (EBC) rates typically ranging between 60% and 80%. While numerous hypotheses have been proposed to explain this imbalance, the relative contributions of neglected energy storage terms, data quality and flux processing options remain insufficiently disentangled. Usi...
Interpretable deep learning reveals spatiotemporal MRI features of brain aging that align with neurodegenerationNARA Subscribed
Cortical thinning and atrophy are hallmarks of brain aging that have been characterized using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Brain aging involves many neuroanatomic features whose effects on brain structure remain unexplored. To address this challenge, we trained interpretable deep neural networks (DNNs) to estimate brain age (BA) from T 1 -weighted ( T 1 w) MRI. By identifying MRI features unapparent to humans, DNNs can fi...
Epigenomic changes are a hallmark of aging, and DNA methylation (DNAm) has emerged as the most reliable molecular marker of an individual's age. Genome‐wide patterns of age‐associated hypo‐ and hypermethylation have been applied to generate predictive models (i.e., “epigenetic clocks”) capable of estimating chronological age in an increasingly diverse set of species including many mammals, a few birds, a reptile, and several b...
Rationale Chronic stress is a major precipitating factor for mood disorders, which are diagnosed twice as frequently in women as in men. However, most preclinical models of chronic social defeat stress have limited use in females due to reduced aggression toward female intruders. The chronic non-discriminatory social defeat stress (CNSDS) model addresses these limitations by enabling the study of stress susceptibility across s...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) disproportionately affects women and carriers of the apolipoprotein E ε4 allele (APOE4), yet little is known about how sex and APOE interact to influence white matter (WM) integrity during disease progression. We integrated diffusion MRI and matched blood transcriptomic data to investigate these interactions and their underlying biological mechanisms. WM microstructure was quantified using diffusion te...